An alternative use is biosolids-to-fuel. Pound for pound, biosolids is similar to soft coal in its content of energy. It can be burned to produce energy for steam, but advanced technologies can turn it into fuel that replaces fossil sources.

When agencies choose to deliver biosolids to a municipal solid waste landfill, the biosolids is deployed to decompose waste and to generate methane that modern landfills capture for running electric generators

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